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RFC2324 posted:I have a Gmail account from gmail beta and a yahoo account i use for spam that has been around since the mid 90s. Was the beta back when it was invite only (and they handed out like 5 invites to anyone that made an account)? That's when I picked up mine. Had a hotmail account that was from the mid 90s but I lost the info to it a long time ago.
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hihifellow posted:Was the beta back when it was invite only (and they handed out like 5 invites to anyone that made an account)? That's when I picked up mine. Yep, thats the beta.
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I quite like having a Hotmail and Gmail account that has my proper name on it. E.g. bob-morton@hotmail.com or bobmorton@gmail.com -as opposed to the newbies who have to make do with bobmorton1985_2@gmail.com. I feel it has some retro - credibility. Oh Christ, am I an email-hipster?
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No, I'm hipster because I maintain my own mail server under my own domain (it's artisan!). So you can mock me.
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spog posted:I quite like having a Hotmail and Gmail account that has my proper name on it. E.g. bob-morton@hotmail.com or bobmorton@gmail.com -as opposed to the newbies who have to make do with bobmorton1985_2@gmail.com. I really wish i had done this back then, but my email is my old Internet handle (remember when we called them handles?)
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RFC2324 posted:I really wish i had done this back then, but my email is my old Internet handle (remember when we called them handles?) Nicks
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IRC - nick BBS - handle AOL - screen name
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Working on a Sunday night. That pisses me right the gently caress off. Server guys schedule a reboot for patching, but don't bother to see if the server came back up. MPLS drops because level3 is run by monkeys, so I'm here fixing poo poo for Level3 and once that's all up, I have to go unfuck their domain controller. AND I'm out of whiskey in my whiskey drawer. 
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I get everything running, about ready to go home, walking to my truck, phone rings. Special Snowflake user in Australia complaining about internet speeds since I fixed the DC. I tell him the link is saturated but the power outages have killed my monitoring server, so I don't have detailed stream data. He goes off to ask around the office, I decided to check the firewall.  10.21.12.50 is his PC. He's the one saturating the loving link. gently caress everything.
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Throttle his rear end back to Dialup days.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Throttle his rear end back to Dialup days. Specifically, 14.4
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baquerd posted:Specifically,
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Johnny Aztec posted:Throttle his rear end back to Dialup days. This
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I'm not that vindictive, but I did set his traffic to low priority, because gently caress that guy.
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DigitalMocking posted:I'm not that vindictive, but I did set his traffic to low priority, because gently caress that guy.
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That's a good way to get yourself called out to said boss about network usage abuse.
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Is there any way to find out what he's using it for? It's always porn.
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anthonypants posted:This is a good way to get an email from this guy CC'd to your bosses about how the network is so slow and you're not doing anything about it I'm ok with that. If they wanted good access to the internet, they shouldn't live on a gods forsaken island in the south pacific.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is there any way to find out what he's using it for? What the hell is this Ack-ay-mye poo poo? Block it! *10 minutes later* You broke the intenet, fix it!
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:What the hell is this Ack-ay-mye poo poo? Block it! *10 minutes later* You broke the intenet, fix it! It's pronounced anime
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Working A new pod of six desks has been fitted and I need to move a team over to them, then the vacant spots can be used by the rest of the service delivery teams as they're going to rearrange themselves. We have folder redirection on along with some silent setup/configuration GPO/Scripts so everyone essentially has a roaming profile experience, my plan was to outfit this new desk with new machines so that the only thing anyone would need to do is take their IP Phone with them, plug in and log into Windows as normal. This plan was rejected, I'm only to procure two computers for new starters and am to move everyone's existing machine into their new spot. Holy loving poo poo I'm tired of not being listened to and having to cheap out on everything, having to rip up every desk and leap frog everyone around takes days to finish with no assistance at all, disrupts everyone else, and is generally just a lovely thing to do during business hours. If it comes down to budget and we literally cannot afford it I'd rather be told upfront, but if we couldn't afford equipment for six seats, well...
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Dec 5, 2016 21:37
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Super Slash posted:Working Do you have extra monitors / mice? Move the computer leave monitor Keyboard Mouse behind setup new ones. Sometimes you just need to work with stupid. I'm baffled about how $13,000 server is too much but a $32,000 industrial printer is too cheap. This loving place.
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pixaal posted:Do you have extra monitors / mice? Move the computer leave monitor Keyboard Mouse behind setup new ones. Sometimes you just need to work with stupid. I'm baffled about how $13,000 server is too much but a $32,000 industrial printer is too cheap. This loving place. At my hedgefund all the desks were modular, so when people moved locations (which was really common) we'd just unplug the short power cable of their desk UPS and the short ethernet cables and slide the desk around. They just had one largish trading floor so it was doable.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is there any way to find out what he's using it for? Not always. Lately it's watching poo poo on their home TV with Slingbox, streaming baseball games, HD YouTube EVO streams for background music...
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pixaal posted:Do you have extra monitors / mice? Move the computer leave monitor Keyboard Mouse behind setup new ones. Sometimes you just need to work with stupid. I'm baffled about how $13,000 server is too much but a $32,000 industrial printer is too cheap. This loving place. Negative; extra monitors were also in my request. With smaller moves I would just move the base unit like you say, with larger moves it's a problem with connectivity (Slightly different model changes over time) of different display cable standards as some things wont match up meaning I'd have to move the whole lot, so its a horrid mess of VGA/DVI/HDMI/Displayports. It's like we hire a bunch of people who need a salary paying, but we don't buy the tools needed to do their job? Jerk McJerkface posted:At my hedgefund all the desks were modular, so when people moved locations (which was really common) we'd just unplug the short power cable of their desk UPS and the short ethernet cables and slide the desk around. They just had one largish trading floor so it was doable.
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Super Slash posted:It's like we hire a bunch of people who need a salary paying, but we don't buy the tools needed to do their job? It's this, you need to figure out a way to charge it or get some set limit that IT can keep in stock that is "pre-approved" of whatever. We had someone in customer service through a temp agency last year, 2 days into it I hear we have a new hire and go to get her office 365 account expense approved because we keep it at just what we are currently using (it swings a good bit). Everything but email and word and excel. Her manager is now on IT I'm differing to CFO who is debating if the $12.50/month is worth it. Next Monday rolls around, Wednesday they decide that $12.50 is too much and they will not be making her full time and let her go at the end of the 2 weeks. I now have no red tape office 365 bill can be for the same user count as our CALs and trigger warning anti-virus count. This means I'm not longer hearing complaints when the CFO logs in and sees unused emails or unassigned licences in office 365, and also can just do my drat job. Bit harder with workstations, but see if you can get it approved as part of the hiring cost. If we get within 2-3 users of my magic number I'm going to give the cost of licensing an additional user for all services and what the monthly upkeep is to CFO / HR and let them figure out if they are doing a hiring freeze or not. See the person's salary is the cost of the user, the monthly fee for email? That's just bullshit Microsoft ripping you off! Yahoo gives you free email! It should cost a set amount for it to have your domain name and as many emails as you want! New computer is more, IT should be covering this! IT's a computer!
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Super Slash posted:Negative; extra monitors were also in my request. With smaller moves I would just move the base unit like you say, with larger moves it's a problem with connectivity (Slightly different model changes over time) of different display cable standards as some things wont match up meaning I'd have to move the whole lot, so its a horrid mess of VGA/DVI/HDMI/Displayports. Oh man, wifi there. Thirty guys, two to three PC's each running high frequency trading applications in a midtown manhattan highrise. Please kill me now.
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It's so beautifully my_employer.txt that we're about to embark on moving all of our support ticketing and system monitoring to a really badly written Windows application when 90% of the user base have Macs. The guys heading up this project must have seen double-digit hours of WebEx demonstrations and not once realised that it wasn't running in a browser.
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Thanks Ants posted:It's so beautifully my_employer.txt that we're about to embark on moving all of our support ticketing and system monitoring to a really badly written Windows application when 90% of the user base have Macs. The guys heading up this project must have seen double-digit hours of WebEx demonstrations and not once realised that it wasn't running in a browser. See if you can put the boot to it with a Zendesk demonstration.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:See if you can put the boot to it with a Zendesk demonstration. The leadership has already sunk so many costs on the planning for this project, they HAVE to do it now.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:See if you can put the boot to it with a Zendesk demonstration. We're ditching a Zendesk install that doesn't work for us because the person responsible for it hasn't learnt a thing about the product and won't buy any professional services to get it configured how his team use it. I am just glad I won't have to deal with this shitshow.
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Vendor lock-in... Our POS software utilizes a credit card gateway product from Verifone called Payware Connect. This is a hosted product from Verifone, but the catch is they don't sell it directly, its only sold through resellers. Our POS software company has a agreement with a certain processor/gateway reseller. If you use this company as your processor they wave the gateway fees from Verifone. If you use another processor, then you have to start paying gateway fees to this reseller. The gateway fees are so high they basically make it so a different processor would never offer any savings, unless they were completely free. Basically, we are paying 8 cents per transaction now. We have received some great quotes for 3.5 and 4 cents per transaction. But the gateway fees we would have to then start paying amount to around 6-8 cents per transaction, thus either making it a wash or ending up more expensive. Granted these sound like small amounts, but when you have 35,000+ credit card transactions a month, it adds up.
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Meeting that I'm only involved in because the data came from a server and I had to help make the ODBC get the data into excel (because the user finds it more like lotus notes and easier to work with than the ERP software. Person had graphs and charts and visuals. CEO came in for a half day left after saying we'd have this meeting later (which is the first I had heard of it) and wasn't there to see anything. Hour and a half passed with people attempting to describe to the CEO what was going on and it ending up I need to see it I'll be back Friday. I love IT being in on silly meetings. Yes I'm here, I got it to pull the data. I can assure you the raw data is correct, I have no idea if the vlookups or math are correct, I didn't make them and you are using them to talk about this that has no technology involvement at all. My opinion on how you should rearrange the warehouse? Whatever this guy says, he's been doing warehouse organization for 25 years. There's something to it, when you can save a few seconds per person picking orders it adds up over the months and years and something you want to do every year or 4 depending on size. But I have no idea the best way to do it, I'm sure this guy knows better it's what you hired him for.
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pixaal posted:I can assure you the raw data is correct,
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anthonypants posted:Just make sure Excel isn't doing any hosed up string autoformatting first, imho I checked the single sheet in the excel file I made, it's right, what happens after that isn't me. I locked the sheet and passworded it too so I'm sure it's still right.
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I might be a huge loving humbug on this one but goddamn I hate office secret santa poo poo. My department is tied in to Administration, based in another building. I'm the only one not in their building. I specifically didn't show up to the Secret Santa opt-in as I've only been around for a month and I don't know anybody in that administration building past saying hello. I got opted in anyway because they didn't want to make me feel left out. This thing entails a $5 gift every day, which has to be dropped off in secret, for 7 days. So I have to bust my rear end to another building on a daily basis to give a $5 gift of whatever to a person I don't know 7 days in a row. To top it off, whoever has me for a secret santa isn't making the trip over to my office so I have no idea what anybody else's gifts look like, so I can't even gauge if my gifts are way off base compared to the norm. I just want to do work, people, why complicate this with the worst kind of office politics?
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$35 in Starbucks gift cards to not be that guy is a crappy tax to pay but I'd still do it.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I got opted in anyway because they didn't want to make me feel left out. Screw that then. Send the organizer a nice notice about how you didn't opt in for "personal reasons" and stop worrying about "being that guy". This isn't high school, it's OK to be different. (just don't be an rear end about it)
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MrKatharsis posted:$35 in Starbucks gift cards to not be that guy is a crappy tax to pay but I'd still do it. 100% this. Just put a little "I'm sorry this is a cop-out, but I just found out I was in this - didn't want to be a grinch, so enjoy your coffees for a few days!" note on it. Or some other pleasantry.
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